i. was born in sochi and it's lived there all his life thirteen years ago the successful entrepreneur was injured while he was inspecting a construction site. debris from a building collapsed on him damaging his spine. because of the lack of an elevator inns apartment block it was effectively trapped in his fourth floor apartment for eighteen months. before that i didn't know anything about disabled people i was totally unaware of how they lived. but when i became disabled myself i realised how difficult it was all those stairs no wheelchair.

and i felt that some make the world a better place i wanted to make it accessible for everyone. in only a few years because become a famous athlete and public figure when his hometown was awarded the winter olympics was consulted on how to make the city accessible to the disabled. come on come on let me come on you can do it. in my early teens i did not understand people i was afraid of something and ashamed of my situation of the fact i was in a wheelchair people felt sorry for me then saying oh what a poor boy got on my nerves so i didn't feel that way i had a hard time going outside but when i began doing sports my life changed completely our society has also changed.

it's going to be my began just down the list aboard the same time. as for dance music but i don't sless as i was often busy lifting weights with dancing the result depends on both partners my partner and i had an ideal relationship because a couple should be one whole. let's i've always liked sports where you are responsible for yourself like with waves of stone if you fail to live something it's your fault clement didn't fall in love with weightlifting at first sight the real excitement only came after a few victories that several championships. bad at the paralympic games in

london he was among the contenders for the gold medal. to get it he only did just one more attempt and one more to well. yes most of them i know that he could do even better he just needs a little more time and he has this time i mean he twenty now and these were his first paralympic games you made himself known after taking third place it's very good and so was i like to tell him your day will come to regret it but i think it would have mattered. one marias hard a month before the olympics but he was a training camp when he saw maria at a cafe he made the first move. i saw him push all the chairs out of his way to get to where i was sitting with his first question was why are you looking at me and smiling i stared at him as i did

not know what to say probably so and there were. even though he's only twenty he's much more mature than the other guys this far about. his age in terms of intelligence and communication and him but i see him on the news they rush to the t.v. and stand still in front of the screen i know it's my for dinner now they see each other once a month at most studying to become a teacher and lives a thousand miles away from his home town as soon as she graduates chill moved to live with so they'll be no more distance between them. but we're going to go guys that's how we're going to live a street ball court is half the size of a regular basketball court with half the number of players to just one good catch can change the course of the game. these athletes play by the same rules in everyday life we're living when we have

the support of others is crucial. alex to call michael was the first to organize a russian sports and arts festival in sochi for the disabled he wanted to show that there are no limits and that any of them could participate in the games despite his age wants to join the national curling team and take part in the twenty four team paralympics which that was when do we meet each other some seventy years ago we met at the first. you were very young there are remember how tenacious you were you know we even competed against each other. i likes to call nick of met his love on a dating website a year ago ladies that came to sochi and now she helps them organize championships for people with disabilities. we knew each other for just a couple of weeks but it felt like we had known each other for us very long time little it really was good fortune this brought us together. we were playing was or

the two of us are very much alike in all of our habits under the way we like to live. with it and so we really don't bother each other it's all in the details. and you know if your boys are. very small you soon just because it was going to be a different issue i never had the feeling that we had just met and that i just came here when my friends asked me if i'd got used to my new life i say that i didn't have to get used to anything was. i simply found my place in my cellmate. from school when it finally dawned on me that this woman was mine that's what i propose to. you soon and that's why we decided that will be really want to see a lawyer to and for god wills and.

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. before he turned seventeen it was no different to most boys he loved speed and was keen on technology his passion for cars prompting the parents to give him a motorcycle's a present. a road accident which iraq owes he survives changed his life forever after both his legs were amputated it took him two years to start his life anew. because you have to carry on living despite the circumstances the most and of course you may vegetated home all the time but i'd rather set a goal and reach out for it. so what if i'm disabled or a big deal but i'm proud of who i am. ten years after the

accident people became a four time champion of the vancouver paralympics he won four gold and won silver. when he realized he had no legs he started smashing all the equipment in the room he was hysterical the next day came to visit him he looked at me and i saw tears flow down his face and he said you will now abandon me. that was the first thing he said which was when we began fighting for a life i wanted to show him that we needed him so i told him you have your hands and your legs are not that only watched the. first eric's parents were afraid to leave him at home alone and he was too shy to

go outside he put on thirty five kilos. it took me two years to rethink my life i had to learn how to eat by myself to go to the bathroom at seventeen i was just like a little baby all over again when you know it was very hard to carry on every day i had to improve but then little by little i learned to help my parents dinner meet them in the evening and so forth. when produce a dog say he started doing his exercises he developed a diet of cottage cheese and saw his dishes well. sometimes i felt sorry for him and that it a little but that he could tell it was there and refused to eat it do you weightlifting swimming table tennis eric played every possible sport but speed was still is greatest passion after one year of training he became the champion of russia in wheelchair racing that very winter he began to ski for the first time. i

love the atmosphere i had been staying at home all the time but then i came out and saw the people in the world when i began to win and attract attention it was addictive he trained every day even in the little time he had at home he barely had time to see if family. alone. i've missed just so much. let's play. just look it's very hard to stay without him especially when i see how the kids miss their dad our dota misses him the most recent she needs her dad our son misses him too he often tells him that he should stop training so much and come home. but.

when this future wife dilemma before the car accident they were in the same group of friends as teenagers but they started going out after iraq returned from his first paralympics. i was trying to convince him not to do it by told her there were many healthy men and that he would find his soulmate and wrong that team members but she said she loved him i told her that if she heard him she would have to deal with me. but she found that it was serious. he charged me with his positive energy and i wanted to talk to him more and more since i got somewhat addicted to him he's the kind of person who gets things done is never complained about life about being disabled never said life is over for him he simply lives and

enjoys just like. their son i knew or was born two years before his triumph at the vancouver paralympics. their daughter was born after his victory we got yeah she's now two her brothers four unfortunately their fathers not been there for any of their birthday parties. and one two three. mama. butterfingers. into the deep. and with you. it's hard for erik every time he asked to leave home but he understands that will be more difficult to defend his title at the two thousand and fourteen olympics. than it was to win it for the first time. so how did i do. you a fifth before you must come second to the semifinals of the world and in the final . this week you you'll be voting for medals green.

every year more young and strong contenders take part working out pushes the limit of human potential and can affect the health of your beach my shoulders are sore. this year the right one has started leaking at the joint. it's been bothering me all season. recently eric has become interested not only in sports but also in political races a year ago he was elected deputy in the city council of his hometown you can't do sports forever but life goes on my sporting career will eventually end so i have to find something else. so i reached my peak in sports what i've achieved everything i could i go to the very top i've become the world champion i won world cups and international competitions i no longer have a passion or desire now i think about my family and children. yes so are we

going to the kid center all right let's go after the kindergarten institutions for disabled children frequently invite. he knows how much money and effort is needed to make these kids normal members of society. hello my ria. maria you overvote was raised in an orphanage. no hell no maria little snow maiden her mother abandoned maria when doctors told her that her child was unlikely to survive and if she did she wouldn't be able to walk talk or hear normally and or mental development would be severely impaired. at the age of twenty marie over became a champion at the winter paralympic games in vancouver winning two golds and won

silver in biathlon and cross-country skiing. why did they give you. do you know why first place because you were the first. when she took part in russian championships she was always very upset if she was not awarded a medal she cried really hard do you want a new mad though very much she does. became maria's teacher of the age of seven the girls transferred from an orphanage to a special boarding school. and has been by maria's side since our first steps into sports taking her to all the training camps and competitions the teacher became a mother to the girl even though she was only twenty then. you know beautiful am i to you. i don't know why do you think. oh we're friends but we're really good friends. maria was lucky

she was selected for the republic of commies national team maria has always stood out from the crowd she was a very active and sociable child but when serious training sessions began doctors strongly recommended that she should not get involved in professional sports she was born with no joints in her legs which leads to poor blood circulation so she could suffer serious health issues. i examined her almost every day i took her temperature and if there was any increase be immediately carried out medical tests for the first million years we were training for results our goal was just to make a solid foundation we wanted her to become strong. one year before the vancouver paralympics the coach just started to increase training they worked out six days a week for eight hours at a time alexander worked with maria on the ski track well to work with her on shooting skills she was with the young athlete twenty four hours a day which is very bad i'm sorry let's go in skiing come on come on.

after maria of us triumph at the olympics the story of the champion who was raised in an orphanage became known in practically every russian household. welcome russia's flight and joy may really be a lympics champion. when maria came back from canada there was a surprise waiting for her at home. her biological mother wanted to see her. there's maria. in the course told journalists that she was the one who abandoned maria twenty years ago. with something it's my fault i was young and stupid when i don't know the mother and daughter had an on camera meeting. my dear

fellow citizens of florida please look at. these don't shake your head. you simply can't understand a person with bandits who child immediately after birth and then eighteen years later turns out when he child has practically become a world star achieved everything she wanted on her role and anything and she appeared outrageous. so that the girls grow up without she's never seen him. even though she's a biological mother i think it's inappropriate to act this way if the rear was around ten years old maybe then she might have responded differently. after the olympics maria moved from the boarding school to an apartment of her own even though she cannot take care of herself that's why her closest friend is always with her. career has to win many more competitions turn her right participate in

the twenty fourteen winter olympics. for the time being does not want to talk or meet with her biological mother. don't discuss this with what do you love. your love. news and i don't know who you know you are asking me. in everyday life she may say she loves me even if i don't ask her about it she says i love you and goes away the weirdos all these things herself at home we learn to embroider hanes you can learn different things. we play. them through or i learn and. are. murray overvote was born after the collapse of the soviet union in a new country more open to developing opportunities. but some challenges still

remain. bumpy would have to be twice as strong as other people it's hard for the disabled in russia we move forward little by little showing what we are capable of it's good they've noticed our sporting achievements it all started when we want to turin didn't mind coover they realised that disabled people are reality. now era three but is preparing for his third paralympic games he wants the winter olympics in sochi to crown the end of his sporting career and signal the start of a new life. when you come back daddy. goodbye darlings. you will have to prove many times that people with disabilities actually have

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you knew. i'd charge is a big picture. in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the clients computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven santa majors to his stature invented by the famed still be an orthopedic because we will is there of in the nineteen fifties these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able

to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life be sent to the other patients shattered bones and in many cases their shattered lives with the main goal when professor of design his first brain using bicycle parts sixty years later his invention is increasingly being used to help people quite eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same fixing somebodies lives both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted to be was out of center now days seeking surgery for cosmetic reasons most of them are men and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novick of who operated on many of them says it usually comes down to a man's pride some of the first patient to turn to us with a low. glink the me and quest to meet his fifteen centimeters to still want to surgery because panos tool than him we like to say that we need to break their legs

in order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from an orthopedic point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lives fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries a band in many countries and even when i go out there pretty expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states financial considerations were one of the reasons they brought this washington state native to western siberia main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in the others in america average is one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight in so eight centimeters would have brought me right to every one of the average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be short and it's not a big deal i think it's like expect to be taller just before the operation most

this matter a russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite endearing yet he still want to have had the surgery adding seven more centimeters to he self-confidence she told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. for an hour so. what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations. live. it.

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